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Halloween - do you decorate your house?

Do you decorate your house at Halloween?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 25.8%

  • No

    Votes: 49 74.2%
  • Total voters
    66
RetroGamingUK

RetroGamingUK

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This is something that's only started to really become a thing in the UK over the past decade and two weeks before the event I'm already seeing lots of pumpkins, cobwebs and skeletons outside people's homes, especially the newer suburbs with young families.

Growing up in the 90s, we had a much bigger celebration this time of year; Guy Fawkes' Night which is typically celebrated with a large bonfire in a nearby field and people setting fireworks off. However this has certainly dwindled over the last few decades thanks to 'health & safety' and strict rules on events and firework sales.

So, it this something you do and, if so, which country are you in?

Feel free to post pics too if you have any cool displays.
 
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It depends on the year, but I'm not like starting to put pumpkings and leafs everywhere on October 1st, I mean come on.
 
No, we live far off the road no one would see it, we have also never had a trick or treater.
 
I hated to get cheap candies when I was younger so I had bought many Japanese kit kat bars for distribution. NOT ONE KID came to ring. Even year prior I left bags of chips for kids to take as I wasn't home and not one taken. Screw that this year, I'm doing nothing. I'm right in the middle of town too.
 
When I was younger, like 40 odd years ago, it was an unwritten thing on the estate that you only went to houses that had halloween stuff in the garden. There were oldies that didn't want to be getting up every 5 mins and families with babies/young kids that didn't want the doorbell going all evening. There were only a few houses that had lots of stuff in the garden but most had a pumpkin and a couple of small bits like cobwebs and such. Considering it was a fairly rowdy council estate it's surprising that pretty much every kid stuck to the rule.
 
Not really, but my sister does a bit of decore in the work place, we have some halloween shit at the front door and a basket with halloween candies in the office for clients.

I'm not american.
 
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The fireplace gets a pumpkin. That's about it. I'm not American :messenger_beaming:

The cobwebs however are real and stay all year round.
 
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Pretty sure we never took our decorations down from last year.

Skulls and bats are appropriate for all-seasons.
 
Hells yeah. I hung up around 1200 lights (they also work for Christmas), we bought a few pop up things like massive spiders and some ghosts, hung a bunch of dollar store skeletons in the tree and even grew our own little pumpkins.

We also do full size chocolate bars. We only get 75 ish kids though.

My sister in law gets around 3500 kids. That's not a typo.
 
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No, I live in the Netherlands. Fuck those American traditions
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I'm glad it didn't adopt easily in my country like Black Friday (or the commercialization of Valentine's Day). Some years there's one group of kids walking the neighborhood, some (if the weather is shitty) there are none. Not many people open the door and give them candy (or money). And no one decorates their apartment or house, that's only happening for Christmas.
 
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I'm having a really hard time getting into the Halloween spirit this year. We do a moderate amount of decorating.
 
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No... and I actually pretend I'm not home.
Sometimes, especially on weekdays - I come home pretty late and for the first few yeas in this house - I used to leave the candies outside in a bin, near by my door with a sign to grab them handful
But nobody picked them up and I end up eating all - so decided not to bother. :(

I think they just go around only certain parts of the town with parents in my neighborhood - so houses around the elementary school get a lot of traffic, but my house - a dead end cul-de-sac and long driveway, get very little attention.
 
I don't really decorate inside the house, but on Halloween I bring a bunch of colored lights and props outside on the porch for the kids trick or treating.

I also bring my keyboard and a stage amp outside and play live spooky organ music during trick or treat. I like to try and play spooky renditions of music based off of the costumes kids are wearing. It's pretty fun!
 
We decorate and sit in the driveway handing out candy. We'll post up with a folding table, a cooler of beer, and a TV streaming horror movies.
 
Not me personally, but the other two humans who live here - especially the tiny one - certainly do. And they get really into it.
 
No, but I love people who do.
I also love a good "haunted house".


Though.. recently I've started to see some stuff like this in front yards...

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Which i thought was a bit much. Especially for the younger kids.

I don't know why... call me a pussy... but that just seems a little too BTK Killer. A bit too real for the front yard.
 
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Trogdor1123 said:
Hells yeah. I hung up around 1200 lights (they also work for Christmas), we bought a few pop up things like massive spiders and some ghosts, hung a bunch of dollar store skeletons in the tree and even grew our own little pumpkins.

We also do full size chocolate bars. We only get 75 ish kids though.

My sister in law gets around 3500 kids. That's not a typo.
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May I ask what city roughly? 3500 is great! Holy moly
 
Not anymore, sadly. My mom loved Halloween and growing up we'd always decorated the house. That continued into adulthood and every year I'd help her decorate her house and she'd help me decorate ours. I kept decorating even after she passed in 2015 mostly as a tribute to her.

But where I live now, apparently church run Trunk or Treats took over the entire Halloween scene a decade ago. There's no door to door trick or treating here; It's allowed but no one does it. Halloween night comes and goes and I don't see a single kid, except packed in SUVs heading to the Baptist church around the corner. So I don't see the point in decorating anymore. (Sorry Mom.)
 
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Spotting a big trend of people hanging big nets from their upstairs window stretching to the end of the driveway with massive spiders on them.

They'd probably look good if they'd found some hight quality versions, I think they look a bit naff.
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Spotting a big trend of people hanging big nets from their upstairs window stretching to the end of the driveway with massive spiders on them.

They'd probably look good if they'd found some hight quality versions, I think they look a bit naff.
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Agree, think they look shite.
 
We decorate a lot, though this year the wife was too busy to do it like usual. I draw the line at tight wrapping of trees in lights the way she likes. These days the projectors, led light screens, and what not means you can get a cool display without a lot of physical work. Blow-ups are great as well, quick to set up, don't take a lot of space. But the wife is old school with tons of plastic all over the place.
 
Not really decorate outside or really inside much these days. Used to when I was a kid and mom and I would put up pictures on the windows but now with her gone dad's not really as interested as he's more for the grandkids now. Pretty much what I do is put up Halloween themed figures or things I've gotten over the years in the living room. Stuff like Ghostbusters figures with proton packs in hand, tiny jack o lanterns and graves that I found in some shop years ago.
 
For now just some carved pumpkins on the porch. I imagine as my kiddo grows older, we will have to put more efforts into it.
 
No. Pumpkins were always a thing here in the states but the gaudy shit I don't remember seeing until the last maybe 10 years. Millennials are cringe as fuck.
 
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This is most of it for this year. I few additional decorations are not pictured, and there was maybe 1-2 bins we didn't bother pulling out this year. Happy Halloween!
 
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